The owner of a Sheringham deli facing its last day of trading has hit out at Brexit for weakening the region's high streets.

Mark Wood said he has been working “seven days a week for three years” to make a success of his speciality high street food shop, Town Deli, in the coastal town of Sheringham.

But the former further education teacher said he had been driven out of business after being unable to afford to replace staff, due to public uncertainty over the UK’s upcoming exit from the European Union on March 29.

Mr Wood, from Sheringham, said: “There’s been eight other food establishments open in the past three years in Sheringham and all of them to a certain extent are reliant on the tourist industry.

“I don’t think there’s enough to go around. I’ve had to make a decision to shut early.”

Mr Wood claimed coach parties visiting the town weren’t being told about shops further down the high street, and weren’t spending money there.